No matter what humble words the Controller used to ask for help from the imperial court at this time, it is difficult to imagine that the imperial court would take any action before seeing with their own eyes that Jingxiang fell into a truly desperate situation, and before Jingxiang soldiers and horses actually suffered huge and tragic casualties.
Sincerely.
However, the humble request for help and Qiu Dong's maximum mobilization of 300,000 troops and horses to fill various defense lines were all intended to make the court feel that Jingxiang had tried its best to barely resist the enemy's center offensive -
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To put it bluntly, in addition to pretending to be poor, you still have to be able to cry about being poor.
Hearing what Dong Cheng said, Shi Zhen laughed and said: "I will definitely have to write more letters for this memorial, but I also ask Dong Gong not to be stingy with pen and ink!"
Dai Viet's way of setting up the envoys department is that in addition to setting up pacification envoys to take charge of military affairs, they usually also set up military and horse capital deployment according to the traditional supervisory department, transfer envoys, handle criminal and prison affairs, and assign Changpingcang affairs to separate the army.
Finance, Constitution, Cao and other departments.
The Jingxiang Road is outside Xuhuai. Except for Xu Wuqi who also leads the deployment of troops and horses, and Dong Cheng who leads some criminal and prison affairs, the other two official positions are vacant. The actual affairs are divided between Shi Zhen, Su Laochang and others.
According to the regulations of Dai Viet, in addition to Xu Huai, the commander-in-chief had the authority to deploy troops and horses and to handle criminal and prison matters.
??????????????? Xu Wuqi is an absolute direct descendant of Chushan. Dong Cheng was also recommended by Xu Huai before he took up the post of Jingxiang Road to handle prison affairs. He could not write a memorial.
, there would be no special incentives for the imperial court, but Shi Zhen wanted Dong Cheng to also submit a memorial. In addition to seeing him helping make suggestions, he also hoped to see Dong Cheng take real practical actions to stand on their side.
"..." Dong Cheng fell silent.
The atmosphere in the venue was a little stagnant for a while.
Xu Huai lowered his eyes and focused on the materials gathered by the Military Intelligence Department.
"Hu Kai, Zhu Hang, and Qian Zerui are all isolated and helpless in the court. They are either kicked aside to guard the idle stoves, or they contribute dozens of strategies. Not one of them may win the Holy Eyes, but they are
In addition to Wang Boqian, Yang Maoyan, Wei Chujun and others, Zhou He and Gaochunnian were once again on good terms. However, how well Zhou He, Gaochunnian, Wang Boqian, Yang Maoyan and others performed before the fall of Hehuai, Dong Gong
You haven’t completely forgotten about it, right? To drive out the Huru and regain the Central Plains, how much hope can you really put in them?”
Han Gui looked at Dong Cheng and said with a smile,
"I sent you to clean up the privately occupied fields in Rucai, Tang Dynasty, Deng Xiangfang and Jingjun, and collected all the profits from the mountains and rivers into the public treasury. The gentry hated them to the bone. The one on the left is 'ancestral regulations', and the right one is 'officials will not take profits from the people'."
Are these cleared fields going to be put into the pockets of you and me, or will they be allocated to the real "people"? These gentry talk about benevolence, justice and morality, but in the final analysis they are just selfish and selfish "plucking a hair to benefit the world without doing anything"
They are just profit-seeking people. Can we really hope to expel the barbarians from these people? Dong Gong has been living in the countryside for these years, focusing on the mountains and rivers. Han Gui still thinks that Dong Gong has seen through all this?"
Dong Cheng was shocked when he heard this and bowed to Xu Huai:
"Dong Cheng knows how to do it. Please ask your Majesty for your instructions on everything!"
Titles in the world were a matter of great learning. Xu Huai, as the envoy of the establishment and pacification, was a legitimate "envoy". Even going a step further, it was not inappropriate to call him "Xianggong".
Xu Wuqi and Dong Cheng, as the chief seal officers of the Supervisory Department, could barely get the title of "Shijun". However, in order to distinguish them from Xu Huaiyi, people would compare them with Shi Zhen and Cheng Lunying, who were the chief officials of the Supervisory Department and the prefect of Nanyang.
Others are called Fujun.
Xu Huai was also granted the title of Marquis of Jingsheng, but since the previous dynasty, the titles of Duke and Marquis were basically empty titles, and private officials were prohibited. Titles such as Junhou, which usually come from the mouths of private officials, were rarely used.
In his haste, Dong Cheng could only use this title to make up for his previous hesitation and hesitation.
"Dong Gong's words are serious," Xu Huai laughed and said, "Everyone is determined to expel the barbarians, no matter what the trivial matters!"
After this incident, everyone felt completely relaxed and began to seriously discuss the possibility of mobilizing 300,000 troops this year...
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"Although it is extremely difficult to mobilize 300,000 troops, which can relax the vigilance of some people in the DPRK and Xiangzhou, but if we mobilize an additional 100,000 troops, even if it lasts until March next year, we can relax a little, but how much more consumption will it cost?
Resources, and how much construction will be delayed, is it really cost-effective?”
Xu Huai returned to the back house and told Wang Xuan about the preparations for the conference. Wang Xuan couldn't help but asked in confusion.
Mobilizing an additional 100,000 troops would definitely mean that there would be no way to provide sufficient equipment, and even the equipment would be deliberately shabby to show the embarrassment of Beijing and Xiangxiang. However, half a year of eating, drinking, sleeping, and corresponding camp construction would at the same time draw out this part of the young and strong labor force.
The resulting production losses are an extremely terrifying figure.
They say that the person who knows you best is always your opponent.
The use of so many people in Jingxiang will not confuse the Red Husbands very much, but in the end it is just to relax the court's vigilance against Jingxiang. Is it worth it? Many people wonder?????????
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"It's still worth doing," Xu Huai said. "By mobilizing so many troops, Rucai can deter the enemy from easily attacking our fortress, which can effectively reduce our casualties. Of course, more importantly, at least
Within three to five years, I do not want the relationship with the imperial court to become further tense or worsen. It is no problem to just rely on the manpower and material resources of Beijing and Xiangxiang to defend the center. But if we want to counterattack, even when the east and west fronts are timid, we still want to first
To regain the Heluo area, the manpower and material resources of Beijing and Xiang are insufficient. We don't expect much support from the court, but we can't let them cut off the trade routes, let alone let them go all out to hold us back.
, even fighting against each other..."
After the death of Emperor Jianji, Xu Huai did a lot of taboo things in order to cope with the worsening situation - even though the bloody facts that have happened and are about to happen all prove the necessity of Xu Huai's many actions, but
Once suspicion is formed, don't expect it to be easily eliminated.
At present, the imperial court is tolerant of Jingxiang and nothing else. On the one hand, Jingxiang needs to work hard to defend the middle line of defense. On the other hand, in the eyes of the person sitting on the throne at this time, Jingxiang is not enough to constitute a real defense line.
threaten.
If Jingxiang can mobilize 200,000 troops and horses this autumn and winter, and easily resist Chi Hu's central offensive, will there be a subtle change in the mentality of some people in the DPRK?
Of course, there may be some people who follow the trend and change their attitude towards Beijing and Xiangzhou.
However, no matter how their attitudes change, these people who follow the trend will have very limited impact, and they are not urgently needed by Beijing and Xiangzhou.
What is really worrying is that the imperial court will further tighten its control over Beijing and Xiangzhou.
Don't think that the imperial court has no further means of restraining Beijing and Xiangzhou before they completely break up and go to war.
In the entire Jingxiang region, only Jianli and other places can produce a very small amount of salt. With a population of more than 4 million and hundreds of thousands of livestock, there is a huge gap in the demand for salt of more than 40 million kilograms per year.
During the Tianxuan period, the salt in the Jingxiang area mainly came from three places:
The first is the pond salt from Puzhou on Hedong Road, the second is the sea salt from the Jianghuai River, and the third is the well salt from Sichuan and Shu.
After Hehuai and Hedong fell to their enemies, salt merchants obtained salt from the imperial court and sold salt from Sichuan, Shu, Jianghuai and supplied it to Beijing and Xiang. In addition to ensuring the needs of people and livestock in Beijing and Xiang, the Jingxiang Production Department could also collect salt from every kilogram of salt sold in Beijing and Xiang.
Share the salt tax of ten cents.
This alone can provide the company with an annual income of more than 400,000 yuan each year, accounting for about 40% of the company's current tax revenue.
If the imperial court clamps down on Jingxiang in this regard, even if it does not directly cut off the supply of salt to Jingxiang, in addition to erasing the previous share of the salt tax and imposing an additional salt tax, how much will Jingxiang lose?
In addition to salt, Beijing and Xiangzhou currently have a large shortage. The commodities that need to be purchased in bulk from outside include cloth, tung oil, herbs, copper and silver, leather, livestock, etc. Once the external supply is cut off or taxes are increased, all goods will be purchased in Beijing and Xiangzhou.
Potential losses, large or small.
In addition, what is more critical is that the future export of commercial goods from Beijing to Xiangzhou will also be subject to checks and balances by the imperial court.
In addition to internal consumption, the ironware, tea, porcelain, candles and other commercial goods exported by Chushan in the early years were mainly sold to the Jingxiang area. Only a small part of the commercial goods were sent to Jiangxia, Yueyang, Jianye, Yangzhou, Chengdu, and Lu
They were sold in prefectures and other places mainly for the convenience of setting up points and opening up trade routes.
On the one hand, the internal consumption of Chushan is huge, and on the other hand, the production scale of Chushan is still very limited. The Xiangjing area alone can fully accommodate the production overflow of Chushan in the early years.
After the establishment of the Production Department, millions of refugees need to be resettled. At the same time, supporting water conservancy, road, and walled city repairs and construction need to be carried out, and a large amount of resources need to be reserved for army expansion.
The huge consumption of shoes, clothing, weapons, armor, war equipment, and camps is like a bottomless pit, swallowing up the supplies that are continuously produced.
Since the beginning of this year, Beijing and Xiangzhou’s external exports have mainly been limited materials such as tea and wood, and the scale is still quite limited.
In the past year, Beijing and Xiangzhou produced a full 25 to 6 million kilograms of iron materials, which could not even meet internal demand.
However, all this is only temporary.
After nearly a year of trial use of the new turbine, its effectiveness is beyond everyone’s imagination.
At present, Yunyang Special Camp has been officially established to build the first epoch-making industrial town at the southern foot of Funiu Mountain.
By the end of the year, the annual output of iron materials in Yunyang alone will exceed 40 million jins, and the output of iron materials in Beijing and Xiangzhou will reach 60 million jins.
At this time, even if the internal consumption of Beijing and Xiangzhou still accounts for a large proportion, it will be able to export on a large scale to the outside world.
In the past, Jingxiang (Chushan) exported iron materials to the outside world, mainly by forming ironware production centers in Huaiyuan, Nancai and other places, and exported ironware forged and formed piece by piece.
This scale is very limited. The ability to export one million kilograms of iron materials every year would be overwhelming.
However, the added value of forged ironware is higher, and thousands of blacksmiths are gathered in Huaiyuan, Nancai and other places to specialize in this task.
However, next, Beijing and Xiangzhou will plan to directly export iron materials to the outside world. The initial plan is to reach a scale of two million catties. Later, the plan is to use the smelting technology that is almost beyond this era and the convenient water transportation conditions of the Han River and the Yangtze River to completely monopolize the entire Jianghuai and Jinghu.
, Sichuan, Sichuan, Fujian, Guangnan, etc. supply iron materials.
Although Beijing and Xiangzhou govern two prefectures and four states, they already have a certain depth and a population of more than four million. However, compared to the territory that Da Yue ruled at this time, the population is still quite small and sparse, and the resources are not sufficient.
If Jingxiang does not want to expand the capture of various resources through direct occupation and violence in the short term, the only effective method is to use the export of advantageous commodities such as iron materials to exchange for the resources that Jingxiang is in short supply to support the subsequent war against the Red Army.
The Hu people fought until the Chi Hu people were driven out and the Central Plains was recovered.
However, in order to achieve this step, in addition to Beijing and Xiangzhou maintaining strong enough advantages in certain fields, the external market also needs to not close Beijing and Xiangzhou.
